AWARD TO BLUEJACKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 13

AWARD TO BLUEJACKET.

A British bluejacket, Tnomat. 13outU?ll, A.li., of His Majesty's ship Glory, was on 15th February awarded the Stanhope gold medal by tti- Koy.il Humane JSoci. etyfor the "bravett deed of the year," which is officitlly described as foUo-va : On 25th November, J9OB, the steamship Sardinia, on fne ir'm stem to stern, was lun ashore at Malta, the sea being rough, with a heavy" *urf. A pinnace from the Glory nal s>UJ.c»ded in Kvvii-ij several pa.s»eiif:2i*3, wlun^ thr.e At; 1 * loweied themselves over iho snip's »ide by a rone. Two of these were picked up, but the third became entangled in the rope. Bouttell volunteered to try und cave him, nnd at the ribk of being dashed against the almost red-hot side of the »hip, or of being cairied away by the rough «ea. he intcceeded in liberating the man from the rope, and supporting him till they were picked up by a boat Home time after.

The throat of Caruso, tho great singer, has just escaprd being th« subioct of litigntion. After tho extrpmoly deliratn operation to which the celebrated artist Kubmitted hi* vocnl chords in Milan some little timo ago, Profco'or dell.i Vodova presented on »c<ount which was truly worthy of hi« fume am turgeou and of tlic celebrity of the Finger. It amounted to £200 a Caru&o off u red at fin>t £400. [ and then, tt* the burgeon persisted in his I demands, £600. There were eomo uttempts at conciliation by lottcr and cablegram, bill th«\v mot with no success, and at laht Professor delln Vedovn docided to have recourse to n legal tribunal. Caruso vat, in fact, cited to appear before tho tribunal ot Florence, where ho has his Italian domicile Caru-o. lion ever, returned negotiation! for a octtk-iuenN and latt month it mbs announced that the quMtton bad b««n compromised, the tenor